PEDALS
Effector 13
Sound Metak is proud
to announce the coming of some of the attonishing pedal effects on the planet
made by Devi Ever of Effector 13. Effector 13 is a humble little effects
company creating sonic destruction/creation for all kinds of audible artists
from guitarists to synth enthusiasts, jazz performers to experimentalists.
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Rocket
Footswitchable
duel layer touch sensitive fuzz / tremolo
More than a fuzz pedal, the Rocket has three modes that range from crying screaming fuzz, to stuttering, touch sensitive synth tremolo goodness. This pedal gives you a wide range of fuzz sounds any Smashing Pumpkins lover would adore. From Siamese Dream era octavia layered goodness to Heavy Metal Machine love... this is where it's at. It ranges territory from Big Muff to Scrambler to Blender to Octavia and then some. Second footswitch engages second layer of fuzz. Second layer fuzz controls creates endless texture combinations. Scrambled, Octavia, Blended, Disharmonic, Noise, Muff-like, Low Fi, Dieing Battery, Huge, Weak, Fat Sustain, Quick Decay. Specializing in DISTINCTIVE fuzz sounds hardly found anywhere else
White Spider
Grinding fuzz with footswitchable boost
Mmmmm.... grinding fuzz... so much texture. A class unto its own. Bright shimmering edging on disaster, plosive power. Choppity short decay fuzz or singing sweet songs of sustain and oscillation. Crank up the knobs for maximum noise and interference. Voodoo chil' rip roaring through the atmopsheric drop in pressure g-dawg. This is where it's at for those ball busting break-the-wall down because you need room for more raging half-stacks, soaring solo's and crunching rhythms.
Android
Ring modulator
/ square wave tremolo
With the help of my long time associate Adam Romero (supplier of E13 PCB's
for over two years), I've been blessed with the opportunity to introduce
to the world the Android! Great ring modulation along with incredible choppy
stop square wave tremelo action with tons of tweakability to boot! From
the shrillest high frequency ring mod sounds to traditional lo-fi bell-chime
goodness
The Handroid gives the same sound as the Android. The only difference between
the two is the joystick control on the Handroid which takes the place of
two knobs.
Disaster Fuzz
Well! The Disaster Fuzz simply take the amazing fuzz from the Truly Beautiful Disaster, and places it in a compact and easy-to-use enclosure. There's no intimidation of the half dozen knobs. Simply the Volume controls the intensity and Oscillation controls the intensity of the oscillating, lower octave effect.
This is by far, no ordinary fuzz pedal. With it's self oscillating circuit, you can achieve fun theremin tones, and lower octave madness that, at higher settings, can arpeggiate into synth-style square wave love! Not only does the oscillation create wonderful madness, but it really thickens up the fuzz tone, making your guitar sing.
Never Drive
The Never Drive takes upper octave fuzz to a new level. With the "Texture" control all the way to the left, your guitar produces the most wonderful dis-harmonic gate-fuzz that sounds very much like a fuzzy Sitar. For best results, use your bridge pickup, and pick heavily towards the bridge. Turn the "Texture" control to the far right, and you have true upper octave fuzz mayhem that would put any other traditional Octavia-style pedal to shame. For you lo-fi "dieing battery" fuzz freaks, turn the "Texture" control any where in between for a plethora of doomed fuzz tones.
... and now a few words about the Never Drive:
"This is probably the second most likely of the E-13 line to appeal to a
broad sampling of the playing public... ...Run the Volume pot high and the
Texture pot to either hard CW or CCW and you reach that millimeter of notch
setting where the device becomes this slightly odd octave/gated-fuzz and
you can satisfy all your Tyco-esque upper octave tweedly-deedelly urges
Though in decidedly different voices at either extreme. Kick it off the
notch in either direction and you have a wide range of fuzz and OD effects
(further altered by the device and guitar volume settings). I realize that
the device is represented as having a sitar-like tone at extreme settings
(drone-synth might be a more appropriate characterization) I humbly offer
that any sitar analogy requires an extremely accomodating imagination (or
never having heard an actual sitar). That trivial point shouldn't lessen
your enjoyment of the device as it is still a great tool with a lot of creative
potential. As with pretty much every E13 pedal I have (or have had), the
Volume pot is not merely an output amplitude adjustment, but another tool
for assigning values to the intensity side of the house. Add to that your
guitar signal adjustments, and you've got a lot of tonal and texture options.
Whether you like the E13 effects or not depends more on your philosophical
stance than your subjective "ear". The manufacturer obviously puts a lot
of heart into his work and seems not to merely turn out trivial variations
on tired themes to sell widgets (or maybe he does and I'm AFU). Anyhow,
if you accept the aforementioned as a pre-condition to trying the E13 devices,
then you'll figure out why each model was worth putting into production.
Like all pedals, it's a device relationship puzzle in which you try to figure
out the same things that excited the guy who developed it. The E13 pedals
just take that concept to the Nth degree (and annoy the bejesus out of your
neighbors in the process)."


